PPP slows down the system

[Emil Khatib]

On 4/17/05, Hexren <me at hexren.net> wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> > I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP,
> > and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works
> > quite bad (and so KDE). When I try "startx", it freezes for a few
> > seconds and then it starts and takes a long time to load KDE. Also,
> > the applications in KDE start very slowly (when they start).
> > Everythings works allright when i get disconnected....
> > Can anyone give me an idea of what is happening (It isn't the first
> > time it happens, I've tried in another computer with FreeBSD and it
> > happens the same)?
> 
> > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 amd64.
> 
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> 
> How many Interfaces are you using ? And are you logged in over the
> network ?
> 
> 

I think I'm using one interface (ppp0)... At least I didn't configure
any interface at all at the installation